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Also, is always encrypting drives even a good or desirable thing for most users?
I don’t know the details, but what if someone forgets the password, or some PC components get broken, but they still want their data put of there?
Disk encryption is something that should be a choice, opt-in.
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Windows Education is fairly common on laptops (kind of a hybrid between Pro and Enterprise from what I can tell). But even in the case of Pro it would be up to the OEM if you’re buying a pre-built. This would mostly only affect people who have gone out of the way to install Pro themselves, and don’t know how to bypass it (although maybe some prebuilts have it used as an oversight, or intentional feature).
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You can buy laptops with it installed, is what I meant to say.
That is why backup of your data is a necessity regardless of encryption or not.
I’d argue it’s similar to the debate over whether HTTPS is needed for most sites (it is and there’s little excuse not to at this point). It also matches what is expected from other devices like phones that are encrypted by default now.
As for data loss: for Home users at least, a recovery key is backed up to the user’s Microsoft account.